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WOOLFARDISWORTHY ASHMANSWORTHY
SS 31 NW

9/211 Strouds
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- II

House formerly farmhouse. Circa mid C17 considerably remodelled and extended in
C19. Rendered stone rubble walls. Gable-ended slate roof. Brick stack at each end
and rendered axial stack.
Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to the left heated by end stack.
Hall heated by stack at its higher end and inner rood by gable-end fireplace. C18
or early C19 long dairy and outbuilding wing added behind lower room. A remodelling
and refronting took place in circa early C19 with staircase inserted into passage
which was widened.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of probably early C19 hornless
sashes of 16 panes apart from 12-pane ones to left of centre on lst floor and to
right on both floors. C20 plank and part-glazed door to left of centre. Lean-to
against left-hand end has part-glazed door at front. Long wing behind left-hand
end.
Interior: entrance hall has early C19 open string staircase with carved tread ends,
wreathed handrail and stick balusters. C19 panelled doors. Room to right of
entrance has open fireplace with herringbone pattern at rear and thinly chamfered
wooden lintel with straight-cut stops. Inner room fireplace has dressed stone jambs
and ovolo-moulded wooden lintel with ogee stops.
Roof: trusses, probably replaced in C19, are insubstantial straight principals.

Listing NGR: SS3390418138

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